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If it looks like a Nazi salute and is done by a Nazi to honor another Nazi while adoring Nazis cheer, why do I care that you think it’s not Nazi?

You can’t name one single lie. If so, please do.

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Assuming that the age field is the only thing being used for determining payouts is really wildly naive. If you wanted to game SSA, this would be the dumbest and easiest-to-catch w…

http://flow.epton.org - inspired by note taking in high school debate (“flowing”), the idea is to better represent a debate by breaking it up into topics and exchanges and visualiz…

Not only does that not make sense…it doesn’t make sense! Why would unpayable ransoms be higher? And my argument is that in fact, “open[ing] up the ease of payment” enables a new fo…

BTC here is synecdoche for all crypto. Silly crypto flavor of the day X doesn’t avoid the ransomware problem at all.

So you don’t disagree that extortionists use crypto to monetize their illegal activity at scale.

Huh? The argument is that they commit crimes and receive ransoms in BTC that they can then convert to USD, EUR. This is a new incentive to commit crimes that simply didn’t exist be…

These expectations go both ways: it used to be that most jobs were stable, long-lasting and well paid. I live in a 100 year old house in Seattle whose first occupants were an immig…

Yeah. I've been on those sidewalks too. "People are passed out, possibly dead" is...hyperbolic. It's a real issue, I grant you, but there's a looot of hyperbole. It's not that bad,…

Lol. I live in Seattle, with a kid, on a block with tons of kids, in a neighborhood with tons of kids. It's fine. Seriously. It's great, actually. WTF are you talking about.

This is so f’ing stupid, and in that way perfectly epitomizes what’s so broken about crypto. Nobody wants to run their own bank, which ALSO means nobody wants to use Jim’s shady in…

> Or perhaps it's a matter of personal principle. Personal conscience and conviction used to be held sacred in the US ... to the point that conscientious objectors wouldn't be forc…

I don’t understand why it matters what Haugen believes - whether in “no encryption” or space fairies or whatever - instead of what she proved, which is the profoundly amoral and di…

Mounk is famous for writing exactly this piece, over and over again, with only the names changed. As long as the person getting “canceled” is in some way conservative, Yascha Mounk…

Having worked at a media outlet, it's not particularly credible that they "ignored" it. Maybe some of them did. But if the Washington Post and Buzzfeed (who are also, uh, media sou…

Just read that and...there's nothing. Fauci's one of the most prominent people on the planet, dealing with one of the worst pandemics in recent human history, so I'd honestly expec…

Was it massive? My impression was that it was exactly what you'd expect - basically a nothingburger, a few interesting tidbits, most of the sensational stuff was taken out of conte…

Yep, I have! Homelessness is a profound and society-wide problem, with no easy answers unless you consider "spend way more money, build way more housing" an easy answer (which I do…

Muckraking implies at least a casual desire to stick to the facts, which is entirely absent from Sinclair-owned stations.

That piece, and KOMO's larger project, are toxic right-wing propaganda. Please don't consider that a reliable source.

There's a great book on ~roughly this topic - Ghettoside, by Jill Leovy. The thesis is that police in some cities (her work is in LA, but I lived in Chicago for a while and the ide…